JEWELLERY, DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS AUCTION Tuesday, 22 February 2022 - 10:00 AM start
A substantial Amboss (Austria) stainless steel cutlery set,
Realised: $550 plus premium
Lot Details
principally a ten-place setting excluding fish knives and forks (eight each), nine teaspoons and six serving spoons, plus approximately thirty additional utensils. This pattern 2050 designed by Oswald Haerdtl. Oswald Haerdtl was an important Austrian architect and whose designs have been shown and are in many major museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. In the early 1950s Hans Malzacher bought the Amboss Neuzeughammer company and recruited architects and designers such as Haerdtl and Carl Aubock to produce flatware designs for it.
